War is about winning.
The west has deluded itself by thinking that sending weapons isn’t war. Sanctions are war. Offering assistance is war. Politicians insanely think it is a more civilized way to battle; it may be a different battlefield but it is war nonetheless
History proves this out... hello RMS Lusitania.
General William Tecumseh Sherman had a quote, “War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
Putin *may* be mad, or he is waging a whole different war than the West has become accustomed to.
We better not just write him off as insane, or we will be caught flat footed if Putin is following the advice of another Civil War general....”Get there firstest with the mostest” - Bedford Forrest.
Good points.